Reviews by Lita Doolan
Prana Yoga online
Lita Doolan
Now is a great time to try a new exercise class. Thankfully, the amazing yoga teachers of Oxford and the city’s well-loved yoga venues are beaming up live classes via WiFi. I usually practice at ...
5 years ago
Prana Yoga online
Defected Virtual Festival
Lita Doolan
With Britain’s nightclubs in darkness, record labels are live-streaming events to music fans, attracting half a million views via social media over the Easter bank holiday. On Good Friday, the ...
5 years ago
Defected Virtual Festival
The Beast Will Rise Monologue Series
Lita Doolan
Gators This slightly surreal, edgy drama of a young woman protecting her own territory after being left alone is performed online and is available to view here. The monologue is created after the ...
5 years ago
The Beast Will Rise Monologue Series
Headington Festival
Lita Doolan
With a bouncy castle, pop music, candy floss and the smell of hot dogs in
the air there is something for everyone regardless of the weather at 2019
Headington Festival. The Circus try out area lets ...
6 years ago
Headington Festival
Shadowlight Artists: Rising
Lita Doolan
When I walked into the ground floor gallery at Modern Art Oxford I didn’t realise the work on display would teach me how to be human. Only after connecting deeper with the work does it become ...
6 years ago
Shadowlight Artists: Rising
Todd White Exhibition
Lita Doolan
Shapes move in and out of their background as the human
form is exaggerated and captured in essence by this exciting modern artist being displayed at Whitewall gallery. ‘The Violence of my ...
6 years ago
Todd White Exhibition
Jack and the Beanstalk
Lita Doolan
The moral of this story, to help listeners utilise their own power, goes back 5000 years. Rooted in a group of stories classified as The Boy Who Stole Ogre's Treasure, Jack and the Beanstalk can be ...
7 years ago
Jack and the Beanstalk
Nicolas Party: Speakers
Lita Doolan
Outsized heads stand up like bold characters and gender fluid perceptions result from the clean outlines of the features on Nicolas Party’s work. Inspired by Japanese Noh masks and Egyptian ...
7 years ago
Nicolas Party: Speakers
Rose Finn-Kelcey: Life, Belief and Beyond
Lita Doolan
Unaffected by popular trends in modern art, Rose Finn-Kelcey puts the meaning of her work first. The fame of this artist is not proportionate to the strong impact her work has exerted on fellow ...
7 years ago
Rose Finn-Kelcey: Life, Belief and Beyond
Aleksandra Mir – Space Tapestry
Lita Doolan
Aleksandr Mir exhibits her large drawings in both Modern Art Oxford and Tate Liverpool. Her large-scale graphic art was completed with 25 young artists assisting the process, using only black ...
7 years ago
Aleksandra Mir – Space Tapestry
Future Knowledge
Lita Doolan
Spotting a passer-by on the High Street wearing a blue badge reading ‘I did nothing’ I wanted to track down where it came from. My search took me to Modern Art Oxford, presenting Future ...
7 years ago
Future Knowledge
Carbon: The Oxford Brookes Fine Art Degree Show 2017
Lita Doolan
The dynamic nature of this show is immediately present in Jessica Dickins' iconic work that suspends three blocks of ice left to slowly melt onto the floor next to Hannah Burrows' vivid coloured ...
8 years ago
Carbon: The Oxford Brookes Fine Art Degree Show 2017
Portraits From A Chip Shop
Lita Doolan
Just like the result of a strong, clear-cut debate, the eyes have it in this open voiced, big hearted and forward looking exhibition comprising of portraits taken by Kazem Hakimi. The subjects are ...
8 years ago
Portraits From A Chip Shop
Tangent, Chacony, An Italian in Madrid
Lita Doolan
Three pieces from the portfolio of the Richard Alston Dance Company are presented as part of their international Spring tour. Argentinian tango is fused in 'Tangent' with the twists and turns of ...
8 years ago
Tangent, Chacony, An Italian in Madrid
Ed Paschke: Visionary from Chicago, 1968-2004
Lita Doolan
This sensational exhibition shows how being an outsider to the action taking place in the frame in does not result in exclusion but a stronger connection to relationships that are played out in ...
10 years ago
Ed Paschke: Visionary from Chicago, 1968-2004
Debora Delmar Corp. Upward Mobility
Lita Doolan
Upward Mobility looks at our behaviour as consumers. What can be kept private and what is made public is investigated by placing iPads as cameras in garden hedges around the room.
This clever show ...
10 years ago
Debora Delmar Corp. Upward Mobility
PLAY: Brookes Fine Art Degree Show
Lita Doolan
The title of this exhibition Play is echoed throughout, Rebecca Eastment makes abstract paintings on MDF that have warm and cold colour tones dynamically interacting. Matthew David Smith’s ...
11 years ago
PLAY: Brookes Fine Art Degree Show
Crystals: Beauty, Science, Structure
Lita Doolan
The golden years of crystallographers is being celebrated with their Nobel Peace prize displayed alongside their laboratory equipment to note 100 years of the study of crystals. There is an ...
11 years ago
Crystals: Beauty, Science, Structure
Hannah Rickards
Lita Doolan
Three television sets point towards each other from the corners of a triangle, in ‘…a legend, it, it sounds like a legend…' (2007). The screens show primary colours whilst the ...
11 years ago
Hannah Rickards
Roelof Louw: Project Space
Lita Doolan
‘I’m having art for lunch’ says a visitor as another orange is taken from the top of a pyramid. The removal of the orange feels organic as it fits perfectly inside the palm. The ...
11 years ago
Roelof Louw: Project Space
Hans Josephson
Lita Doolan
This show documents how feelings emerge from the flesh. Hans Josephson captures the enormity of the human experience in solid works with a profound gravity. Layers of plaster are placed onto the work ...
12 years ago
Hans Josephson
For Shower Singers
Lita Doolan
Amalia Pica’s show at Modern Art Oxford invites the visitor to play. Standing close to a white microphone made of soap that dangles from the ceiling makes the body feel dangerously close to ...
12 years ago
For Shower Singers
Documenting Cadere: 1972-1978
Lita Doolan
There is a voice of a probing interviewer asking the artist what his exhibition is about played via an audio recording in the gallery room. This show investigates the politics of space during a ...
12 years ago
Documenting Cadere: 1972-1978
Chicoland
Lita Doolan
Any establishment offering a delicious and filling main meal served with a hot drink for less than a fiver is surely welcome on any High Street. Chicoland offers all day cooked breakfasts, filled ...
12 years ago
Chicoland
Jenny Saville
Lita Doolan
There is no beginning or end to the Jenny Saville show just a continuum of feelings held inside the viewer inspired by the subjects in the portraits. Faces look indirectly out of the huge canvases ...
12 years ago
Jenny Saville
Mad About The Boy
Lita Doolan
This story of belonging starts with Boy (Bayo Gbadamosi), dancing. As he yearns for something better from life, his path towards fulfillment is constantly thwarted by his urban surroundings. The ...
12 years ago
Mad About The Boy
Scallywags
Lita Doolan
It is a grey day when I run into Nathan Chapman, Artistic Director of SOOP Theatre as I get lost in the rain through Brighton’s Lanes. In the mayhem of Brighton’s ‘Fringe ...
13 years ago
Scallywags
Lost in Time
Lita Doolan
There is a bleak emptiness to the downstairs studio at Modern Art Oxford even though it is full of carefully arranged objects. Perhaps the grid-like meticulous layout of items on the wall by ...
13 years ago
Lost in Time
Shezad Dawood: Piercing Brightness
Lita Doolan
Three young men in hooded tops ride bicycles and circle a man and a woman. The chased couple wear floating white gowns and walk in an equally dreamy procession. At every turn the dreamy ...
13 years ago
Shezad Dawood: Piercing Brightness
Minsk 2011
Lita Doolan
The cast are seated on plastic chairs miming train journeys, police interrogation and nightclub politics. Minsk, 2011, named after the capital city of Belarus, is being played out in 90 minutes ...
13 years ago
Minsk 2011
Oxfordshire Artweeks 2012
Lita Doolan
’Be Interesting‘ is written in chalk on a college wall and captured in a large photograph here at O3 gallery. It‘s a tall order in the May heat wave. A low berth caravan is perched ...
13 years ago
Oxfordshire Artweeks 2012
Blood Wedding
Lita Doolan
It’s in the wee small hours I get caught up in the evocative guitar music of the Lorca production about to open at the Oxford Playhouse, and quiz the Guild on their forthcoming show. ...
13 years ago
Blood Wedding
Graham Sutherland - 'An Unfinished World'
Lita Doolan
In the best sense Unfinished World feels like a collaboration and breathes vital new life into the role of curator. Turner Prize nominee George Shaw has selected dozens of paintings and drawings by ...
13 years ago
Graham Sutherland - 'An Unfinished World'
Tamarin Norwood - Keeping Time
Lita Doolan
I get slightly lost on the way to the ladies at Modern Art Oxford and stumble into a wonderful open studio housing work in progress by Tamarin Norwood. The doors of this working space are open to the ...
13 years ago
Tamarin Norwood - Keeping Time
Fireworks Poetry Competition 2011
Lita Doolan
Cat DownThumping heart in the loopumping my fist on my chest to be awakefor the morning after the flying roman candles.There is a dead cat lying on the lawnand three more houses to checkbut no trace ...
13 years ago
Fireworks Poetry Competition 2011
People Apart: Cape Town Survey 1952
Lita Doolan
This is a vitally important exhibition but one that is hard to review as it deserves a thorough understanding of the subject matter. 27 black and white photographs are on display, showing ...
13 years ago
People Apart: Cape Town Survey 1952
Britain From The Air
Lita Doolan
The vastness of the conversations these massive photographs spark up is awe inspiring. Each landscape or scene depicts a part of the British horizon and tells a story about our modern lives. Looking ...
13 years ago
Britain From The Air
Manifold Greatness- Oxford and the Making of the King James Bible
Lita Doolan
The Bible is something I often see in the top drawer of a hotel bedroom donated by a charity but aside from an obvious object of faith I did not realise the political importance of the version you ...
13 years ago
Manifold Greatness- Oxford and the Making of the King James Bible
Ripper Teeth in Action- James Capper
Lita Doolan
James Capper’s collection of drawings at Modern Art Oxford are perfect for the busy but intrepid art lover. Site specific work can move mountains and indeed James Capper has designed Ripper Teeth ...
13 years ago
Ripper Teeth in Action- James Capper
Teacher Of Dance
Lita Doolan
The lights are on in the foyer, as the plain white light bulbs are switched on behind Venetian blinds but nobody is at home, for the domestic blinds are mounted flush against the gallery wall. The ...
13 years ago
Teacher Of Dance
Eccentricity
Lita Doolan
Eccentric Oxford scientists are nailed to the mast of the current Museum of History of Science exhibition and a colourful sail this haul makes. Items that would not normally make the cut for ...
13 years ago
Eccentricity
Humble Boy
Lita Doolan
I caught up with the director of Humble Boy, Simon Tavener, on his way to rehearsal to find out how this season's production of the Oxford Guild at the Oxford Playhouse is shaping up. This does have ...
14 years ago
Humble Boy
Wildlife Photographer - 2010
Lita Doolan
Walking past the large glass window of Science Oxford makes me feel like the keeper of a zoo, with vivid photographs of wildlife from around the globe on display. The images have an animated reality ...
14 years ago
Wildlife Photographer - 2010
Valentine's Day Poetry Competition 2011
Lita Doolan
In the dressing room of the Swansea Grand we find…Miss Cora Goffin glued to a fanWell, you got to have a gimmick.‘No you got to have a pair of shiny tights that are not full of holes’She cries, ...
14 years ago
Valentine's Day Poetry Competition 2011
Shelley’s Ghost: Reshaping The Image of a Literary Family
Lita Doolan
To do this intellectual exhibition full justice would require a decade of study, but there is much on show to inspire the casual passer by like myself. The Bodleian exhibits works of literature that ...
14 years ago
Shelley’s Ghost: Reshaping The Image of a Literary Family
Thomas Houseago: What Went Down
Lita Doolan
This month an army of monster-sized figurines have entered our city in a bold manner, briefly causing the front window of Modern Art Oxford to be removed and the local roads to be closed. The work ...
14 years ago
Thomas Houseago: What Went Down
Bath Time
Lita Doolan
The Burton Taylor studio has been turned into an upstairs bathroom where we can all play games such as singing, ‘Row, row, row your boat’ with all of the actions, thanks to Vicky Andrews' ...
14 years ago
Bath Time
Cinderella
Lita Doolan
Our new friend Fairy Godmother sings ‘Do you believe in magic?’, instructs us to put everyday objects around a pumpkin and declares ‘Let’s go!’ For, heralded by the wave of her wand, ...
14 years ago
Cinderella
Murder In The Cathedral by TS Eliot
Lita Doolan
Sitting late into the night, in the centre of Christ Church Cathedral a small group of local parishioners and Oxford alumni share an impassioned reaction to what is surely a triumph. Old and familiar ...
14 years ago
Murder In The Cathedral by TS Eliot
The Red Shoes
Lita Doolan
It’s a long time since I read ‘The Red Shoes’ and I wasn’t sure how it ended and having seen the show I’m still not sure. The many twists in the story of the Girl take us through emotional ...
14 years ago
The Red Shoes
Murder In The Cathedral by TS Eliot
Lita Doolan
Murder in the Cathedral is causing a stir with tickets in short supply after selling out in a matter of weeks at the Box Office. The large cast is comprised partly of Oxford University Students who ...
14 years ago
Murder In The Cathedral by TS Eliot
Edinburgh Fringe 2010
Lita Doolan
The Author by Tim Crouch, Traverse Theatre, August 29th:**coming to the North Wall, Oxford: Friday 24th - Saturday 25th September, 8.00pm** This is a review of The Author, a play that took place ...
14 years ago
Edinburgh Fringe 2010
Edinburgh Fringe 2010
Lita Doolan
Shakespeare for Breakfast, C theatre, August 2010
Milling around the invigorating C venue with a strong coffee and the promise of a croissant is a great way to start the day, especially when the ...
14 years ago
Edinburgh Fringe 2010
Edinburgh Fringe 2010
Lita Doolan
Olivier Choiniere’s surreal story outlines how devotion to a megastar can break the bubble of every day life with devastating consequences. The set is a collage of trashy magazines depicting the ...
14 years ago
Edinburgh Fringe 2010
Summer Show by Rona
Lita Doolan
Rona succeeds in capturing in big bold clear images domestic bliss turning mildly sour. The cracks are never self evident yet the texture of the paintings is too even for the painted characters to be ...
14 years ago
Summer Show by Rona
Howard Hodgkin: Time and Place
Lita Doolan
The fact that painter Howard Hodgkin uses a limited palette of colours for his work accentuates his passion for true colour. In ‘Red, Red, Red’, a stunning orangey hue makes twisting open circles ...
14 years ago
Howard Hodgkin: Time and Place
Uwe Ackermann: By the Water's Edge
Lita Doolan
The range of architectural structures in each of Ackermann’s photographs varies, but the presence of water stays constant, flowing through each piece, offering a meditative quality. My favourite is ...
14 years ago
Uwe Ackermann: By the Water's Edge
Tiny Volcanoes - Paines Plough
Lita Doolan
The explosive kinks firing in Britain’s multicultural mix are explored in this fast-paced hour of logically-sequenced sketches. Topical news stories, such as schools becoming Academies that are ...
14 years ago
Tiny Volcanoes - Paines Plough
Ghost Forest
Lita Doolan
Walking home one late Summer’s night, it is a delight to stumble upon these tree stumps from Brazil and further afield. The roots carve into each other and infinitely bend into twisted curves, ...
14 years ago
Ghost Forest
The Great British Country Fete
Lita Doolan
In this highly original show Russell Kane’s dialogue and Michael Bruce’s songs freshly juxtapose to offer a witty deconstruction of country life. The songs create the feel of a community that is ...
14 years ago
The Great British Country Fete
Daily Info's 2010 ANTI-Valentine's Poetry Competition
Lita Doolan
Stranded at the Strand
Fruity jealousy green ripe and tart
sharp as razors on the tongue
is the saliva I swallow
as she kisses him.
My costly beanie hat skids over my staring too hard eyes ...
15 years ago
Daily Info's 2010 ANTI-Valentine's Poetry Competition
Daily Info's 2010 ANTI-Valentine's Poetry Competition
Lita Doolan
Hero shot down in flames by a seizure.In a breathlooking at me as if to wonderwhat I came here for.Body crumplingin front of my eyeslike a crisp packet under the sunwith no understanding I have ...
15 years ago
Daily Info's 2010 ANTI-Valentine's Poetry Competition
Topography by Mirsolaw Balka
Lita Doolan
The excruciating extremes of Polish weather on a stripped landscape have perhaps informed Balka’s expression of ‘Topography’. The first floor of Modern Art Oxford houses grinding bleak empty ...
15 years ago
Topography by Mirsolaw Balka
Common Task by Pawel Althamer
Lita Doolan
This is an enjoyably surreal experience delivered on two different levels and heightened by the joy of donning a gold jumpsuit lifted off the pegs near the gallery entrance. One couple leaving the ...
15 years ago
Common Task by Pawel Althamer
Printmaker's Co-operative at the O3 Gallery
Lita Doolan
Taking home a print offers the thrill of savouring the many layers to the work and mentally deconstructing the artistic process that constitutes re-branding this ancient discipline as a ...
15 years ago
Printmaker's Co-operative at the O3 Gallery
Small Obsessions
Lita Doolan
The individual talents of the dozen artists displayed at the ‘Notfamousyet’ gallery in St Clements are brought into sharp focus by the miniaturist approach of the curator. Small pieces only have ...
15 years ago
Small Obsessions
Deep Cut
Lita Doolan
Writer Philip Ralph took 2 years to create this verbatim piece of deeply relevant political theatre. His work documents the struggle of Private Cheryl James’ parents to get their questions answered ...
15 years ago
Deep Cut
Dreams of Violence
Lita Doolan
Writer Stella Feehily offers us wisdom and wit, in sparkling dialogue, spoken by some cracking uptown urban characters in a comedy that dramatises both the recession and family dysfunction. ...
15 years ago
Dreams of Violence
Horrible Histories: Frightful First World War & Woeful Second World War
Lita Doolan
Horrible Histories ‘World War 2’ presents an epic representation of operation ‘Moonlight Sonata’ that burnt Coventry city to the ground as an act of revenge to Britain’s war tactics. The ...
15 years ago
Horrible Histories: Frightful First World War & Woeful Second World War
Othello
Lita Doolan
The legendary story telling powers of Creation Theatre Company are such that 3 hours of Othello (including an interval) passes by in a flicker. Set around World War 2, this seductive yet sexually ...
16 years ago
Othello
Horrid Henry - Live and Horrid!
Lita Doolan
Horrid Henry wants his own identity separate from that of his kid brother Perfect Peter, so he dreams up his own show. Cue a dazzling rock star routine with stadium lights. The trials of life for ...
16 years ago
Horrid Henry - Live and Horrid!
Chuckle Trek
Lita Doolan
‘Chuckle Vision’ fills the proscenium arch as mind boggling big box illusions cast a spell over keen Chuckle Brothers’ fans who are boldly told to ‘Get out of it!’. This two hour show ...
16 years ago
Chuckle Trek
Honk! The Musical
Lita Doolan
This Easter brings the revival of the popular Acting About production of Honk! Back by popular demand after last year's success, the local company are returning to the Old Fire Station to perform ...
16 years ago
Honk! The Musical
The Solid Silver 60s Show
Lita Doolan
With each of the groups achieving a standing ovation after their performance it is obvious just what a loyal following The Solid Silver 60’s show has, in its 24th year. The line up can vary but is ...
16 years ago
The Solid Silver 60s Show
Singin’ In The Rain
Lita Doolan
The moment the dance troupe cascades onto the stage in red sequinned leotards, tap dancing with hats, canes and smiles that ‘glorious feeling’ comes flooding into the theatre. This legendary ...
16 years ago
Singin’ In The Rain
Oxfordshire Gang Show 2009
Lita Doolan
The annual tradition of the Oxfordshire Gang Show arrives making the New Theatre the embodiment of a true community venue. Local Units of Scouts, Beavers, Brownies, Guides and Rangers are all warmly ...
16 years ago
Oxfordshire Gang Show 2009
Anti-Valentine's Day Poetry Competition 2009
Lita Doolan
over ice cream for two slowly melting:He sees me as a crosswordhe can’t finish.I am his fork in the road.He will change memould me as claywarm to the touchnow solidity has leftour relationship.
16 years ago
Anti-Valentine's Day Poetry Competition 2009
Valentine's Day Poetry Competition 2009
Lita Doolan
midnight felicitationsthick dense soft falling snowfilling in fox tracks drowningbare roots in silence;over the earth is a matt of whitebaring two naked lovers in crystals
16 years ago
Valentine's Day Poetry Competition 2009
The Convict's Opera
Lita Doolan
Out of Joint reinvents musical theatre in this interpretation of The Beggar’s Opera by using a mixture of genres to tell the tale of 18th century convicts being transported to Australia who are ...
16 years ago
The Convict's Opera
Neighbourhood Watch
Lita Doolan
Very entertaining... yes bit too much volume at times, but it is a small auditorium, would be fine at a larger venue.Very impressive performances particularly by the actor who played the policeman ...
16 years ago
Neighbourhood Watch
Sweeney Todd
Lita Doolan
Oxford Brookes Drama Society delivers a performance as sharp as one of Mr Todd’s silver razors during this two and a half hour blood-curdling spectacle in the Old Fire Station black box studio. ...
16 years ago
Sweeney Todd
Tri-Umph!
Lita Doolan
There is nothing like new writing to refresh the mind and offer actors the thrill of creating a role from scratch. In these three short plays by members of The Oxford Writers Group (based at the ...
16 years ago
Tri-Umph!
The Factory
Lita Doolan
Precarious are a dance collective who present distinct scenes of physical theatre with images projected onto their bodies, as they show a cautionary tale about how the extremes of consumerism can ...
16 years ago
The Factory
Enjoy
Lita Doolan
The winds of change, in the form of grey-suited council officials, enter into Connie and Wilfred’s back-to-back terraced house, which has been earmarked for demolition. One council official who ...
16 years ago
Enjoy
Topless Mum
Lita Doolan
The extremes to which modern day Army warfare pushes recruits is examined in ‘Topless Mum’ to an understandably more profound depth than the story of media manipulation that is told in parallel. ...
16 years ago
Topless Mum
Early Music by Candlelight Summer Festival 2008
Lita Doolan
A candlelit harpsichord recital by Kah-Ming Ng of predominantly French Baroque music is interspersed by colourful stories told by the musician about the lives of the composers featured. The 6 musical ...
16 years ago
Early Music by Candlelight Summer Festival 2008
Saints And Sinners
Lita Doolan
Tom Peters plays the archetypal actor looking for the conscience in the souls of Shakespeare’s characters in the intimate rehearsal space that has evolved between the chancel and the font in this ...
16 years ago
Saints And Sinners
Elvis - the Legend Continues
Lita Doolan
Tonight, Lee ‘Memphis’ King is Elvis Presley who, backed by an eight piece orchestra, delivers roaring classics such as ‘Viva Las Vegas’ along with some lesser known songs like ‘Just ...
16 years ago
Elvis - the Legend Continues
Saints And Sinners
Lita Doolan
From what is heard echoing out of this central Oxford church, it seems there will be much variety in the pieces of Shakespeare presented in the one man show playing here this Summer. Tom Peters, ...
16 years ago
Saints And Sinners
Encounters: Victor Alimpiev
Lita Doolan
Two natural phenomena such as summer storms and fingers tapping on table tops are combined in ‘Summer Lightnings’, one of two short film pieces by Moscow based Artist Alimpiev showing at Modern ...
16 years ago
Encounters: Victor Alimpiev
Gary Hume: Door Paintings
Lita Doolan
Open doors, swinging doors and melamine institutional doors all mark the early work of painter Gary Hume as variations on a theme colourfully demonstrating the inventive imagination of the artist. ...
16 years ago
Gary Hume: Door Paintings
Simply Ballroom
Lita Doolan
Two hours of foxtrot fun and samba sparkle light up the New Theatre as soap opera stars Sam Kane (Emmerdale) and Sophie Lawrence (Eastenders) introduce set pieces performed by a young dance team. ...
16 years ago
Simply Ballroom
Cinderella
Lita Doolan
The young and innovative ‘Vite Feet Dance Troupe’ are getting ready to tell the tale of Cinderella using a kaleidoscope of dance styles ranging from hip hop to jazz. This modern interpretation of ...
16 years ago
Cinderella
The English Game by Richard Bean
Lita Doolan
Headlong Theatre continues to find inventive ways to tell new stories, such as this tale told from the edge of a cricket match, ‘the English game’. An effortlessly elegant theme of the play ...
17 years ago
The English Game by Richard Bean
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Lita Doolan
This show is two hours of unashamedly populist entertainment in a reworked format of the Joseph musical in which some of the TV stars from the Any Dream Will Do talent competition perform ...
17 years ago
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Lita Doolan
In the words of the mechanicals, ‘This green plot shall be our stage’. Oxford School of Drama could not have chosen a more appropriate venue for their students to perform A Midsummer Night’s ...
17 years ago
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Last Five Years
Lita Doolan
Amy Cooke-Hodgson chooses the perfect piece to bring out the full story-telling potential of the Old Fire Station; the black studio is given the air of a downtown Manhattan off-Broadway theatre by ...
17 years ago
The Last Five Years
Clod Ensemble: Red Ladies
Lita Doolan
Eight Red Ladies each wearing a red scarf, sunglasses, a black raincoat with red stilettos are spotted walking along Queen St (GMT 17.49 28-05-2008) as part of the External element of this mixed ...
17 years ago
Clod Ensemble: Red Ladies
Hello, Dolly!
Lita Doolan
In this grand dame of old theatres, originally a home to music hall in 1836, the performance of this portrayal of New York at the turn of the twentieth century has the effortless elegance of an old ...
17 years ago
Hello, Dolly!
Educating Agnes
Lita Doolan
Theatre Babel’s backdrop is an oil painting of a reclining, cherubic nude. Her classically-styled juvenile body is admired by the determined eyes of a sophisticated older man. This sets the ...
17 years ago
Educating Agnes
To Be Straight With You
Lita Doolan
Two lesbians, quivering with fear on a sofa, follow a man standing inside a projected world atlas highlighting countries where homosexuality is a prison sentence. There appears to be a clear global ...
17 years ago
To Be Straight With You
The Merchant Of Venice
Lita Doolan
Shoulder-pads are back with a vengeance! Set in the greedy Eighties, this version of Shakespeare’s controversial tale of racial tension pulls no punches in telling of the danger involved in ...
17 years ago
The Merchant Of Venice
Encounters: Katie Paterson
Lita Doolan
A grand piano is programmed to play an altered version of ‘Moonlight Sonata’ so the keys are moving as if an invisible musician is seated at the helm. For a split second it is like a digital ...
17 years ago
Encounters: Katie Paterson
Gift: The Ideas Exchange
Lita Doolan
OVADA bursts with fresh, dynamic, creative ideas in the multi-media show ‘Gift’ staged by ‘The Ideas Exchange’ collective of art practitioners. Louise Taylor tells a surreal urban story via ...
17 years ago
Gift: The Ideas Exchange
Mircea Cantor
Lita Doolan
A huge golden cage fills half of the upper gallery ahead of which is a flying carpet suspended from the ceiling. The emptiness of the white space enforces the illusion of scale; the viewer is tiny ...
17 years ago
Mircea Cantor
Clare Summerskill - In No Particular Order
Lita Doolan
‘In No Particular Order’ is an unusual title for such a well-structured stand-up comedy show, interspersed with sketches and funny songs such as the infectious ‘I’m in love’, tune with the ...
17 years ago
Clare Summerskill - In No Particular Order
Sinatra
Lita Doolan
‘Sinatra’ uses rare archive film of ol’ blue eyes projected onto contemporary screens such as white umbrellas and sheets of gauze around which a West End chorus of dancers perform period ...
17 years ago
Sinatra
Honk! The Musical
Lita Doolan
‘Oh Quack, it’s the big one!’ Acting About Productions explodes onto the stage with a musical comedy that enthralls a packed audience (ranging from toddlers to grandfathers) from overture to ...
17 years ago
Honk! The Musical
Tell Me A Picture
Lita Doolan
O3 gallery displays work from a group of artists who act as story-tellers through the genre of illustration. Some of the images come with text so the viewer can drift effortlessly into the tale. ...
17 years ago
Tell Me A Picture
Testing The Echo
Lita Doolan
Shots of interweaving story lines are fired fast and furiously around a group of students in Matthew Dunster’s sharp direction. They're in a class learning English for Speakers ...
17 years ago
Testing The Echo
Citizen Milton
Lita Doolan
John Milton influences English culture from a number of perspectives, not least revolutionary, poet and visionary. This detailed exhibition of early editions of his work is divided clearly into ...
17 years ago
Citizen Milton
Testing The Echo
Lita Doolan
Legendary theatre Director, Max Stafford-Clark, read from his book ‘Taking Stock’ at a recent talk at the Oxford Playhouse theatre. This fascinating publication outlines the stories behind key ...
17 years ago
Testing The Echo
Honk! The Musical
Lita Doolan
Honk! The preview... After opening at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury (1993) and beating stiff competition to win the Olivier award for best musical (2000) this British musical comedy, based on the ...
17 years ago
Honk! The Musical
Lynette Kay
Lita Doolan
Through her large canvases, Lynnette Kay shares an experience with the viewer, such as the vivid multi-tonal layers of ‘Walking into the Red Sea’. Similarly ‘A Night in Tunisia’ is painted ...
17 years ago
Lynette Kay
Oxford Gang Show 2008
Lita Doolan
With snappy dance routines to songs from musicals like ‘Fame’ and ‘Dirty Dancing’, community groups such as Guides, Brownies and Scouts perform in this amateur Variety show. The number of ...
17 years ago
Oxford Gang Show 2008
Obsessions: Oxford Brookes
Lita Doolan
The fragile beauty of a clear shattered walking cane manufactured by Victoria Cox in ‘Exoskeleton or Fragile Mobility’ is one of the first things that you see in OBsessions, this ...
17 years ago
Obsessions: Oxford Brookes
Encounters: Lina Saneh
Lita Doolan
Lina Saneh tells the story of her dream to her mother who lies in bed, the mother’s expressive face being filmed throughout. This head shot of the listener interacting with the out of shot ...
17 years ago
Encounters: Lina Saneh
Stomp!
Lita Doolan
Short shots of rhythmic performance are delivered as this warm-hearted troupe share their personalities and let the audience get to know their characters over a two-hour show. Having no interval ...
17 years ago
Stomp!
Lazytown Live!
Lita Doolan
90 minutes of high energy fun with just a 15 minute pit stop for ‘sports candy’ is a sure fire treat for the 1,600 fans filling the New Theatre, many wearing the costume of their favourite ...
17 years ago
Lazytown Live!
Curious Home
Lita Doolan
A process of fine-tuning digital gadgets to make our cocooned home life even more curious produced six prototype mini machines that were given to volunteers to road test. After around two months ...
17 years ago
Curious Home
Phi*lat*e*ly
Lita Doolan
The meticulous process of aligning hundreds of stamps into a perfect grid-like formation has resulted in a kaleidoscope of montages on display at the University Church café. The patience in ...
17 years ago
Phi*lat*e*ly
Shine By Wilbur Heynes
Lita Doolan
Fluid substances are photographed to look like solid crystalline structures in some of Wilbur Heynes’ digital prints on aluminium. The cosmic body of water, the lapping ocean, is snapped at coasts ...
17 years ago
Shine By Wilbur Heynes
Holbein, Durer and Beyond
Lita Doolan
‘Holbein, Durer and Beyond’ is a selection of sketches by German Artists dating from late 15th to 17th century taken from the holdings at Christ Church Picture Gallery. The quality of the prints ...
17 years ago
Holbein, Durer and Beyond
The Oxford Open Exhibition
Lita Doolan
Morna Rhys, Rachel Williamson, Ben Pritchard, James Nairne, Jane Peart, Michele Field and Marc Allen are all amongst an impressive list of established Art practitioners on show alongside fledgling ...
17 years ago
The Oxford Open Exhibition
Helen Ganly: Journey Into Light
Lita Doolan
In a gently blurred film Helen Ganly fills a Polish river with paper origami boats carrying glowing candlelight. Timed exquisitely to synchronise with the fading natural light the sight of the flames ...
17 years ago
Helen Ganly: Journey Into Light
The Rivals
Lita Doolan
Whilst Sheridan sets his masterpiece in late 18th Century Bath, this Oxford University Student Company directed by Chanya Button has brought the action of this comedy into the roaring 20’s. Whilst ...
17 years ago
The Rivals
Beauty and the Beast On Ice
Lita Doolan
The on-stage ice rink is lined with the huge spines of outsized story books such as ‘Mother Goose’ - only tonight, it is time to tell the classic fairy tale of ‘Beauty and the Beast’. ...
17 years ago
Beauty and the Beast On Ice
Jimmy Carr - Repeat Offender
Lita Doolan
Jimmy Carr wears an understated dark suit, stands centre stage in this packed theatre and holds the crowd with his sharp, wry humour for two one hour sets, interspersed with an interval. In the ...
17 years ago
Jimmy Carr - Repeat Offender
Grigorovich's Nutcracker
Lita Doolan
Just like a belated present hidden underneath the Christmas tree this fairy tale ballet delights all ages with a series of Tchaikovsky classics conducted by Mihai Amihalachioaie. The full-strength ...
17 years ago
Grigorovich's Nutcracker
Tales from the Brothers Grimm
Lita Doolan
Cocoon-like houses painted on lanterns that swing in the gnarly branches of the surrounding set, the audience thaws out with rugs, mulled wine and a hospitable welcome from Front of House manager ...
17 years ago
Tales from the Brothers Grimm
Starlight Express
Lita Doolan
This rock-solid roller-skating musical has reinvented itself once again since opening at the Victoria Theatre in 1984, now projecting film in 3D onstage to recreate the atmosphere of two heats and ...
17 years ago
Starlight Express
Starlight Express
Lita Doolan
This rock solid roller-skating musical has reinvented itself once again since opening at the Victoria Theatre in 1984, now projecting 3D film to recreate two heats and one final race between the ...
17 years ago
Starlight Express
Aladdin
Lita Doolan
Producer Tish Francis presents another home grown pantomime hit, as life-enhancing as the Oriental culture the scenery depicts, after all, ‘Confucius say man who keep feet on ground… has trouble ...
17 years ago
Aladdin
Rachel Williamson's Paper Museum
Lita Doolan
Inspired by researching the F. B. Brady Collection of paper theatres held in Christ Church Library, Rachel Williamson presents neat compact cabinets full of tiny treasures and reproduced images from ...
17 years ago
Rachel Williamson's Paper Museum
Floodscapes By John Goto
Lita Doolan
Commissioned to encourage a greater public involvement in environmental issues, these large-scale digital images of flooded landscapes by John Goto show some irony. The works demonstrate how the ...
17 years ago
Floodscapes By John Goto
Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans + Awful Egyptians
Lita Doolan
Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans Using the context of two unlicensed British tour guides trying to tout for trade in modern day Rome, The Birmingham Stage Company tell the tale of the Roman ...
17 years ago
Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans + Awful Egyptians
City Limits
Lita Doolan
Christine O’Sullivan paints grid-like rhythms to reflect the urban landscape of the big apple. In her willow charcoal drawings, shading marks out shapes that work a conflicting dynamic that ...
17 years ago
City Limits
The Boyfriend
Lita Doolan
The Boy Friend is a vivacious homage to the era of boy meets girl musicals of the 1920’s, where a bevy of perfect young ladies search for that certain thing called 'the boyfriend'. Written in the ...
17 years ago
The Boyfriend
Encounters: Imran Qureshi
Lita Doolan
The sparse meditative backgrounds in Qureshi’s portraits are painted with few colours, it is the small details that inform the viewer of the bigger picture. In one landscape a multiplying family of ...
17 years ago
Encounters: Imran Qureshi
Trisha Donnelly
Lita Doolan
This exhibition reverses the usual route taken around Modern Art Oxford, presenting an experience that represents one evening, as narrated by the companion leaflet. Walking up the stairs that ...
17 years ago
Trisha Donnelly
Chinese Prints 1950 – 2006
Lita Doolan
This concise collection of modern Chinese prints, dating from 1950 to 2006, shows a diverse range of subject genres used by Artists during a relatively short period of time. The earliest works are ...
17 years ago
Chinese Prints 1950 – 2006
The Duchess Of Malfi
Lita Doolan
Apricot Productions offer a highly polished production of Webster’s visually poetic language complete with generous slices of blood and guts action that makes your mouth water when seated near ...
17 years ago
The Duchess Of Malfi
Faces of Oxfordshire: Hidden Faces
Lita Doolan
Hidden Faces is a colourful and compact mixed media Art show. This excellently compiled exhibition is found at OVADA on the corner of Gloucester Green Bus Station. It contains video work resulting ...
17 years ago
Faces of Oxfordshire: Hidden Faces
Oxjam Small World Party
Lita Doolan
Under the Norman Castle Mound the festivities of the noon time Oxjam happenings burst onto the castleyard platform. Sol Samba blaze with their fiery hot rhythms to a crowd keen to get into a latin ...
17 years ago
Oxjam Small World Party
Chatroom/Citizenship
Lita Doolan
An overwhelming aspect of the evening is enjoying the enthusiasm with which this predominantly teenage audience receives two leading edge contemporary short plays; one each by Mark Ravenhill and Enda ...
17 years ago
Chatroom/Citizenship
Small Worlds
Lita Doolan
This clever exhibition bigs up little things in the fine details of Heather Barnett’s photographs taken from archived microscope slides. Gigantic ideas abound from a variety of interactive art ...
17 years ago
Small Worlds
5 2 10 by Walker Dance Park Music
Lita Doolan
Stripped down to bare essentials as the title of the work suggests, this is 5 duets 2 solos and 10 instruments played live on stage, performed by four contemporary dancers of Walker Dance Park Music. ...
17 years ago
5 2 10 by Walker Dance Park Music
Under Milk Wood
Lita Doolan
Community theatre at its finest takes place in Bayards Hill School, as the audience is seated to the sound of an incoming tide bringing with it a day in the life of a Welsh coastal town. Hanging from ...
17 years ago
Under Milk Wood
Marc Allen - Light Plays
Lita Doolan
O3 gallery continues to offer tourists, local residents and passers-by innovative work by practitioners who strive to develop techniques that remain unique to their work. In Marc Allen’s ...
17 years ago
Marc Allen - Light Plays
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Lita Doolan
Theatre companies are often defined by the amount of creativity they can inject into ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and this production by Dash Arts shows as much originality as the bench mark ...
17 years ago
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Visiting Mr Green
Lita Doolan
One of the finest actors of our generation, Warren Mitchell revives his role as Mr Green, an abandoned old man who is visited by young executive Ross who is serving a community sentence for running ...
17 years ago
Visiting Mr Green
Creation4Kids – Children’s Theatre Workshops
Lita Doolan
For just the day or a full working week, Creation Theatre offers children’s workshops, often themed to tie in with their seasonal performances. During the Arabian Nights Christmas show of 2006, the ...
17 years ago
Creation4Kids – Children’s Theatre Workshops
By Jeeves
Lita Doolan
Alan Ayckbourn’s libretto encompasses plot lines from the tales of ‘Jeeves and Wooster’ by P G Wodehouse and is set to 1920’s period music composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber in this decidedly ...
17 years ago
By Jeeves
Floating
Lita Doolan
Officially this is a story about being both both connected and disconnected from a place but in reality this is a welcome invitation to the audience to be daring and become more comfortable in our ...
17 years ago
Floating
Journeys
Lita Doolan
The square canvases of Claire Wiltsher’s work accentuate the dimensions of the dramatic global scenery she captures with oil paint and mixed media. Materials collected on her worldwide journeys are ...
17 years ago
Journeys
Forgotten Voices
Lita Doolan
Strangers meet over coffee in a lobby after giving interviews of their experiences of World War I. This 90 minute performance embraces the suffering inflicted on the survivors of man’s bloodiest ...
17 years ago
Forgotten Voices
The Oxford Passion Play
Lita Doolan
The Passion - the tale of Christ’s last days on earth - is performed on the site of Oxford Castle’s medieval chapel. All that remains now of St George’s Chapel is the underground crypt that ...
17 years ago
The Oxford Passion Play
Herge's Adventures Of Tintin
Lita Doolan
The journey of Tintin, his dog Snowy and loyal companion Captain Haddock is followed across the Himalayas as the young reporter sets off to prove his friend Chang has survived a terrible airplane ...
17 years ago
Herge's Adventures Of Tintin
Equestrian Art
Lita Doolan
Paintings by Neil Cawthorne and Barrie Linklater capture the dynamic speed of horses in motion whilst detailing the fine musculature of the equine species. Scaled up sculptures by Lorne McKean ...
17 years ago
Equestrian Art
Encounters: Moshekwa Langa
Lita Doolan
Homeland is a simply-presented exhibition of 9 photographs surrounding a three-minute film piece contained in one room and is inspired by a visit the Artist has recently taken to the Northern ...
17 years ago
Encounters: Moshekwa Langa
Bedroom Farce
Lita Doolan
Visually engaging from the moment the audience is seated, Michael Holt’s amazing set design of three bedrooms stacked like building blocks is perfect for a night of farce. The bedrooms are ...
17 years ago
Bedroom Farce
The Gruffalo's Child
Lita Doolan
There may be some of us who are a little scared when we first see the big hairy Gruffalo on stage but within minutes we find he is a big softy at heart and a great teller of Julia Donaldson’s ...
17 years ago
The Gruffalo's Child
The Taming Of The Shrew
Lita Doolan
Creation Theatre unleashes one of the most potent themes in Shakespeare’s writing, the power of the imagination, in Heather Davies’ 1950s interpretation of this comic battle of the sexes. A brief ...
17 years ago
The Taming Of The Shrew
Pam Ayres: Surgically Enhanced
Lita Doolan
Pam Ayres took to the stage in a shimmering coral scalloped-edge top, black trousers and heels and opened with the self-reflective poem ‘Mirror, Mirror’. The audience welcomed her as warmly as an ...
17 years ago
Pam Ayres: Surgically Enhanced
Stella Vine: Paintings
Lita Doolan
The controversial nature of the subjects tackled in this exhibition means you will probably have heard about it on the grapevine, but the large size of the canvases and the sweetness of the candy ...
17 years ago
Stella Vine: Paintings
Siobhan Davies Dance: Two Quartets
Lita Doolan
Siobhan Davies Dance performs Two Quartets, each with a fundamentally different approach to structure. The first group of dancers are barefoot wearing black and white tie-dyed loose-fitting linen and ...
17 years ago
Siobhan Davies Dance: Two Quartets
Julie
Lita Doolan
There is no interval in this performance of 75 minutes, which offers the perfect format for telling a story, based on Strindberg’s ‘Miss Julie’, through contemporary opera. The story is one of ...
17 years ago
Julie
Peter and Dan Snow
Lita Doolan
Former ‘Newsnight’ presenter Peter Snow and Military Historian son Dan Snow present eight battles of the twentieth century that shaped the modern world. Starting with the Battle of Amiens (1918) ...
17 years ago
Peter and Dan Snow
Open Doors
Lita Doolan
2007: The Open Doors, such as the well chamber gate at the top of the mound, and Open Minds weekend is blessed with fine weather as Café Food serves traditional English roast pig and Oxford Ale. ...
17 years ago
Open Doors
Life At Brandiers
Lita Doolan
Photographer Peter Lavery captures the natural life of his home, Brandiers Farm in Wiltshire, using a technique that delivers photographs that have the appearance of oil paintings. This technique is ...
17 years ago
Life At Brandiers
Mahabharata
Lita Doolan
A Princess born from fire accepts her mission on earth: to provoke an apocalyptic war in this epic dramatisation of the poem ‘Mahabarata’. The company uses Kathak classical Indian dance as the ...
17 years ago
Mahabharata
The Importance Of Being Earnest
Lita Doolan
This quintessential Oxford Summer play contains some of the funniest lines written in the English language, all successfully delivered in this well-cast production from an ensemble of established ...
17 years ago
The Importance Of Being Earnest
Molora
Lita Doolan
Yael Farber cleverly adapts the Oresteia trilogy to tell the story behind the painful healing process experienced by the survivors of post-Apartheid South Africa, centring around the dynamics of the ...
18 years ago
Molora
Moonscope:
Lita Doolan
Moonscope is a stunning site-specific exhibition of work by local Watercolour artist Rebecca Hind and Astronomer and Portraitist John Russell. The Museum of the History of Science vestibule cabinets, ...
18 years ago
Moonscope:
Juan Martin
Lita Doolan
Virtuoso Flamenco guitarist Juan Martin raises the roof in a sold-out performance at the Oxford Playhouse with his Rumba compositions. Whilst the heart of Flamenco lies in the songs (or cantes), the ...
18 years ago
Juan Martin
Hamlet
Lita Doolan
Of the many themes on offer from this stylish monochrome production of Shakespeare’s best, the one that moves me most is mortality and the dilemma of how one's allotted time is spent. ...
18 years ago
Hamlet
Six Characters Looking for An Author
Lita Doolan
University of Oxford Students perform Pirandello’s classic piece of theatre of the absurd with much creativity. The play asks profound questions about the nature of identity in the dialogue between ...
18 years ago
Six Characters Looking for An Author
John Hegley - Uncut Confetti
Lita Doolan
John Hegley has the ability to take every day events and describe them in deeply poignant and hilarious poems that offer entertainment for all ages when performed live. On the ‘Uncut ...
18 years ago
John Hegley - Uncut Confetti
Choral Pilgrimage 2007 - Allegri Miserere
Lita Doolan
Harry Christophers conducts 18 choral voices, no orchestra, at this sold-out programme of work by renowned Papal composers of the 16th century in the high-vaulted Gothic University Church of St ...
18 years ago
Choral Pilgrimage 2007 - Allegri Miserere
The Wonderful World of Dissocia
Lita Doolan
The subject matter of this show is tacked after the interval when a clear plastic window separates the audience from Lisa in her bleak individual hospital room for one. A sterile white bedside light ...
18 years ago
The Wonderful World of Dissocia
Baskets Everywhere - Oxfordshire Before Plastic
Lita Doolan
Take a look at the functional, robust and ergonomic baskets used in the early and late twentieth century. Buff willow lunch baskets and baskets used for cherry picking and shopping are on loan to ...
18 years ago
Baskets Everywhere - Oxfordshire Before Plastic
Richard Alston Dance Company
Lita Doolan
Four beautiful dances interspersed with two twenty minute intervals give a running time of one hour and fifty minutes, offering a comprehensive performance of work by this genius English ...
18 years ago
Richard Alston Dance Company
Karen Purple: Between here and there
Lita Doolan
Purple’s translucent abstract paintings offer the viewer many different layers to explore and get lost in, like a walk in an open field. The compositions have a style similar to the contemporary St ...
18 years ago
Karen Purple: Between here and there
Jericho Café
Lita Doolan
You order at the counter of the Jericho café. How I know this, is walking in for the first time I say out loud ‘let’s sit down and see what happens’. To which a total stranger chips in, ‘the ...
18 years ago
Jericho Café
Sprint
Lita Doolan
Stoically open early Sunday mornings this breezy eatery deserves to be buzzing come May morning. Serving bacon and egg rolls and buttery crispy croissants and pain au chocolat for breakfast, the ...
18 years ago
Sprint
The Snow Queen
Lita Doolan
‘Moon. Fire. Thread.’ Is the dancing game that links the childhood friends Gerda and Kay until a shard of glass from a broken magic mirror freezes Kay’s heart. The Snow Queen who lives in the ...
18 years ago
The Snow Queen
The Flower Garden of Spring
Lita Doolan
Scenes of Court life during the rule of Indian Mughal Emperors are on display at the Bodleian Library. Pages of albums gilded with arabesque gold details and bright bold gouache on paper enchant. ...
18 years ago
The Flower Garden of Spring
Fourth Oxford Folk Festival
Lita Doolan
Glorious sunshine beams down on the many displays of Morris Dancing at Oxford Castle during the Fourth Oxford Folk Festival. Revellers perched on the courtyard steps are served toffee apples, ...
18 years ago
Fourth Oxford Folk Festival
Justin Neal
Lita Doolan
Justin Neal’s photographs are intended to make us consider the link between the past and the present but in my case does this through hoots of laughter. A knight in bright shining armour goes for a ...
18 years ago
Justin Neal
Multiple Masters
Lita Doolan
Reproducing paintings as prints enables a work of Art to reach a much wider population and in the days prior to photography is a common practice in allowing collectors to ‘collect’ pre-existing ...
18 years ago
Multiple Masters
Dürer To Friedrich Drawings
Lita Doolan
40 pieces of fine Romantic German Art are on show at the Eldon Gallery, the selection taken from the Ashmolean’s larger donated collection. Drawings by 16th Century Masters, showing the intensity ...
18 years ago
Dürer To Friedrich Drawings
Callum Innes: From Memory
Lita Doolan
A retrospective of Callum Innes’ work from the past 15 years gives the viewer a chance to observe the subtle variations that flow through each of his series of work. Innes develops a new vocabulary ...
18 years ago
Callum Innes: From Memory
Raphael Vella, Reading Cabinets
Lita Doolan
An arc of three cardinal red painted 'Reading Cabinets' are placed in the centre of an empty room. No clues offer direction to the viewer. Although the themes of some of Vella's sketches placed in ...
18 years ago
Raphael Vella, Reading Cabinets
Time and Place: English Country Clocks, 1600-1840
Lita Doolan
Densely packed with intricate clock faces, downstairs in the History of Science Museum the story of clock making in England is told. In many cases local materials are used and regional styles emerge ...
18 years ago
Time and Place: English Country Clocks, 1600-1840
Mark Thompson: Breaking Silence
Lita Doolan
Mark Thompson's art delivers a metaphoric blast of ice cold air straight to the lungs. The stark geometric images, captured on paper, evoke the drama of the big freeze experienced in Northern ...
18 years ago
Mark Thompson: Breaking Silence
Playhouse Café / Bar
Lita Doolan
This fine piece of architecture, designed by Sir Edward Brantwood Maufe in 1938, houses the recently refurbished (in shades of chestnut and tan) theatre bar. After completing the Festival Theatre at ...
18 years ago
Playhouse Café / Bar
Olives Deli
Lita Doolan
If you have been easy-jetting your way around Europe recently and need a potted reminder of the aromas of Rome or the seasonings of St Etienne, then 'Olives' on the High Street is the place to bring ...
18 years ago
Olives Deli
Oxford Castle: Unlocked!
Lita Doolan
Oxford Castle Unlocked is looking after our lifelong learning with thought provoking monthly events held at the newly opened bright and airy Key Learning Centre. Tickets for one of the 90 minute ...
18 years ago
Oxford Castle: Unlocked!
Cambridge Jones
Lita Doolan
Glittering RADA graduates are photographed in black and white by relative newcomer to the genre of Portraiture, Cambridge Jones. The stirring nature of the Welsh landscape is reflected in the ...
18 years ago
Cambridge Jones
Arrivals: Estonia
Lita Doolan
Kristina Norman's film documents how the response to settling in a non-native country varies dramatically from individual to individual. Focussing on a Russian Pribalt community now settled in ...
18 years ago
Arrivals: Estonia
Castleyard Café
Lita Doolan
This newly opened café punches well above its size to serve traditional three course meals cooked from local produce in addition to robust light bites. Highlights on Alison's menu include ...
18 years ago
Castleyard Café
Daniel Buren
Lita Doolan
Rather than present the viewer with distinct works of Art traditionally placed within a gallery space, Daniel Buren fills the walls of Modern Art Oxford with his signature 'stripe' motif. Buren ...
18 years ago
Daniel Buren
Designs For Life
Lita Doolan
Oxfordshire's Women's Institute groups use their vast range of handicraft skills to portray dangerous viruses in the 30 panels, designed by textile artist Anne Griffiths, on display at Science ...
18 years ago
Designs For Life
Dick Whittington - The Panto!
Lita Doolan
Little did Richard Whittington, a Gloucestershire born 'mercer' of 1350s, know that his success in life trading luxury silks, money-lending to Royalty and achieving three appointments as Mayor of ...
18 years ago
Dick Whittington - The Panto!
Arabian Nights
Lita Doolan
When courageous King Shahrayar finds out his beautiful wife has been unfaithful, he seeks revenge on all the women he marries by executing them after their first night of marriage. To save the ...
18 years ago
Arabian Nights
West Side Story
Lita Doolan
Oxford Operatic Society takes us to downtown Manhattan where a benevolent social worker, the Gladhand, is holding a dance to try to heal the rift between two rival gangs, the Sharks and the Jets. ...
18 years ago
West Side Story
Wolves in the Walls
Lita Doolan
Improbable and the National Theatre of Scotland present this short, perfectly crafted piece of complete theatre. Both companies pride themselves on producing theatre for the people and the superbly ...
18 years ago
Wolves in the Walls
Revelations: Stan Wont Dance
Lita Doolan
A metal grid encasing domestic appliances provides 'Stan Won't Dance' with a performance area at stage level and above. From the top of the grid angels (or demons?) descend into a kitchen where a ...
18 years ago
Revelations: Stan Wont Dance
Autumn Poetry Competition
Lita Doolan
How to get flowers this Autumn
I lost my job but I got a plant
Dave from accounts spotted four buds
'you'll be alright for flowers
even though they cut your hours!'
such was the extent of his ...
18 years ago
Autumn Poetry Competition
Orestes
Lita Doolan
90 minutes of fast paced intense drama tells the story of Euripides' challenging text 'Orestes'. The tale begins with the apparently sealed fate of siblings Electra and Orestes, both guilty of ...
18 years ago
Orestes
The Threepenny Opera
Lita Doolan
Mackie's back in town, with this gritty Opera for beggars performed to an extremely high standard throughout by student group, Musicals of Oxford. Director Lotte Wakeham directs a 21 strong ensemble ...
18 years ago
The Threepenny Opera
Alison Lilley Berrett
Lita Doolan
Vivid colours and the essence of nature inform the Artist's work subliminally in a style that may remind the viewer of Patrick Heron, in this selection of Berrett's abstract paintings. The bold ...
18 years ago
Alison Lilley Berrett
Oxford Castle: Unlocked!
Lita Doolan
Oxford's newest tourist attraction, opened by Her Majesty on the 5th May, draws local and international visitors alike and part of the joy of the tour is hearing other people's diverse reactions to ...
18 years ago
Oxford Castle: Unlocked!
Arrivals > Slovakia
Lita Doolan
450 bricks have been made in the Chilterns from local clay and straw and then assembled by the artist Ilona Nemeth to form a closed corridor in Modern Art Oxford's lower gallery, to be viewed by one ...
18 years ago
Arrivals > Slovakia
Oriental Condor
Lita Doolan
One of Oxford's original Oriental fast food joints steams ahead, dishing up tasty snacks conveniently close to the railway station. Marinating meats (lemon chicken, honey-roasted pork) in the ...
18 years ago
Oriental Condor
Waiting for Godot
Lita Doolan
This theatrical masterpiece directed by the master of theatre, Sir Peter Hall, shows us the human condition stripped bare, through the poetic cadences of playwright Samuel Beckett. The passing of ...
18 years ago
Waiting for Godot
The Overwhelming
Lita Doolan
Set in Kigali, Rwanda 1994, playwright J T Rogers paints a picture of a country on the brink of genocide. After three years of war this small country, 'the Switzerland of Africa', has a high birth ...
18 years ago
The Overwhelming
Robin Hood
Lita Doolan
A mammoth multi-level tree house re-creates the Major Oak where the legendary merry men hide in the trunk and dominate Sherwood Forest. Humorous modern day 'Crimestopper' posters about Headington ...
18 years ago
Robin Hood
ARRIVALS>CYPRUS: Christodoulos Panayiotou
Lita Doolan
Enter into Modern Art Oxford's lower gallery and be engulfed by the easy listening pop melody "Slow Dancin' " as crooned by John Travolta. Panayiotou's work divides his spectators into those who ...
18 years ago
ARRIVALS>CYPRUS: Christodoulos Panayiotou
Macbeth
Lita Doolan
The Cypress, Oak and Copper Beech trees of Headington Hill Park provide the Birnham woods that are ready to come to Dunsinane and undo Shakespeare's popular tragic hero Macbeth. The native English ...
18 years ago
Macbeth
Charley's Aunt
Lita Doolan
Inspired by student eccentricities and Varsity life, Brandon Thomas' three-act farce is set around the fictitious 'St Olde's' college. The atmosphere of quadrangles and cloisters is re-created ...
18 years ago
Charley's Aunt
Kerry James Marshall
Lita Doolan
Fired by the geography of an early childhood in Birmingham, Alabama in the 1950's, Kerry James Marshall uses a wide range of art references to position the black figure centrally on the Art history ...
18 years ago
Kerry James Marshall
Love's Labours Lost
Lita Doolan
Merton College Fellows' Garden provides the elegant location for the Court of the King of Navarre; set in 1920's England. The pervasive atmosphere of Shakespeare's most poetic comedy is captured ...
18 years ago
Love's Labours Lost
The Merchant of Venice
Lita Doolan
The anti-Semitic theme of Shakespeare's controversial work is intelligently interpreted by Creation Theatre, playing the old Elizabethan law of mercy against the emerging new law of selfish usury. In ...
18 years ago
The Merchant of Venice
The Importance of Being Earnest
Lita Doolan
Widely considered to be one of the funniest plays written in the English language, Oxford Shakespeare Company squeezes every last drop of wit out of 'The Importance of Being Earnest' in this ...
18 years ago
The Importance of Being Earnest
Photo Synthesis
Lita Doolan
Bright and beautiful photographs taken by local school children during their visits to Oxford University's Botanic Garden are being displayed at Science Oxford. The photographs are the result of a ...
18 years ago
Photo Synthesis
Summoned by Bells, John Betjeman and Oxford
Lita Doolan
To celebrate the centenary of Sir John Betjeman's birth, the Bodleian Library is exhibiting first manuscripts and artefacts, some taken from private collections, that document the influence of Oxford ...
18 years ago
Summoned by Bells, John Betjeman and Oxford
Out Of Beirut
Lita Doolan
The communities and architecture of the Lebanese capital provide inspiration for the work of 18 contemporary artists in an exhibition that tells the story of this historically divided city. Having ...
18 years ago
Out Of Beirut
Shakespeare's As You Like It
Lita Doolan
The walled garden of Christ Church Cathedral lends its pastoral calm to effect the magical Forest of Arden; a refuge for runaway Orlando and the banished Rosalind who is travelling incognito with ...
19 years ago
Shakespeare's As You Like It
Flora McLachlan
Lita Doolan
Passing through the atmospheric graveyard of St Giles prepares the senses for Flora McLachlan's enchanting landscapes. The ornate, richly coloured stained glass windows of the church frame the deep ...
19 years ago
Flora McLachlan
Artweeks: Edition 3
Lita Doolan
Artweeks: Edition 3 - Jane Peart, Heather Power & Morna Rhys
Oxford Museum, St Aldates
13-28th May 2006 12-4.30pm weekends; 10am-4.30pm weekdays
(check ahead with museum for weekday viewing as ...
19 years ago
Artweeks: Edition 3
Artweeks 2006
Lita Doolan
Artweeks: Edition 3 - Jane Peart, Heather Power & Morna Rhys
Oxford Museum, St Aldates
13-28th May 2006 12-4.30pm weekends; 10am-4.30pm weekdays
(check ahead with museum for weekday viewing as ...
19 years ago
Artweeks 2006
Oxford Brookes Fine Art Degree Show 2006
Lita Doolan
'How fat do you have to be to be bullet-proof?'20th - 25th May 2006Pick and mix your favourite selection of eye candy from this year's sensational degree show at Brookes. Contemporary work from 30 ...
19 years ago
Oxford Brookes Fine Art Degree Show 2006
Artweeks 2006
Lita Doolan
“Recapturing a Certain Youth” by Rona (www.ronapainting.com)
Marmalade Café Gallery, 27 Park End Street 01865 244613
1st - 31st May
The factory where Frank Cooper once made Oxford ...
19 years ago
Artweeks 2006
Krispy Kreme
Lita Doolan
Krispy Kreme is the latest addition to the eateries surrounding Oxford Castle, the city's newest heritage site. A taste of 1930's Americana is recreated in the café's Hot Original Glazed ...
19 years ago
Krispy Kreme
The Vaults & Garden
Lita Doolan
Open everyday (9.30am-5pm) for home cooked specialities, the food at the Vaults and Garden Coffee House is so fresh it almost jumps off the plate. With a generous 20% discount given to students ...
19 years ago
The Vaults & Garden
The Heat is Rising
Lita Doolan
Final year students of the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art have taken over Modern Art Oxford’s café to exhibit a preview of their forthcoming degree show. With such a rich variety of media ...
19 years ago
The Heat is Rising
Arrivals>Latvia
Lita Doolan
Different sized photographs scattered on a grey wall in this installation by Latvian artist, Alnis Stakle, create the narrative of a dream. Viewed from the centre of the lower gallery, the display ...
19 years ago
Arrivals>Latvia
Win a Meal for Six at the Big Bang!
Lita Doolan
The Perfect Lover
I've given half a lifetime, clinging to the same bar.
It's hard to know how far to go
but a wet knife makes the perfect slice.
If you leave it next to you that fetches you ...
19 years ago
Win a Meal for Six at the Big Bang!
Win a Meal for Six at the Big Bang!
Lita Doolan
5 a day
Flying high on the 'get ready' express,
to fit into my black cherry dress.
Banana scrub dazzles, spits
onto my sticky mango'd lips.
No time to waste, he's booked ahead.
A citrus slush ...
19 years ago
Win a Meal for Six at the Big Bang!
The Oxford Story
Lita Doolan
Set around a piece of history itself, namely the thirteenth century Bastion tower, The Oxford Story squeezes 900 years of history into a highly enjoyable 45-minute visit. Devised by the creators of ...
19 years ago
The Oxford Story
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Lita Doolan
Recently named by the Guardian as Britain's most family friendly museum, Oxford University's Museum of Natural History has a warm welcome for everybody. Follow the Megalosaurus footprints, ...
19 years ago
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Angela Bulloch: Sculpture
Lita Doolan
Angela Bulloch's functional sculptures play with the ways in which we interpret different types of information. Her work appears simplistic (sound chairs gained her a Turner Prize nomination in 1997) ...
19 years ago
Angela Bulloch: Sculpture
Cecily Brown: Paintings
Lita Doolan
The human figure, sex and the voyeuristic gaze are the subjects of Cecily Brown's large-scale canvases displayed at her first major retrospective. The detailed images are too broken down to be ...
19 years ago
Cecily Brown: Paintings
Haircuts in Oxford
Lita Doolan
Essensuals hair salon has a young, fresh, pop vibe with only funky, choppy, up-to-the-minute hairdos being allowed to leave the building. The salon's mission is to customise high fashion to fit ...
19 years ago
Haircuts in Oxford
Oxford Open Top Bus Tour: Guide Friday
Lita Doolan
Touring around your native city may seem like a busman's holiday (ho ho!), but on a clear day, an open top double-decker bus is an invigorating place to be. Should April showers strike, the driver ...
20 years ago
Oxford Open Top Bus Tour: Guide Friday
Posh Fish, Headington
Lita Doolan
When a fire destroyed Headington's well-loved chippy (the Mediterranean) there was uncertainty as to whether the eatery would re-open. Last week saw the re-branding of the restaurant when Posh Fish ...
23 years ago
Posh Fish, Headington
